[Burmese palm-leaf manuscript]. 113
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Palm leaf, Gold, Textile, Wood
Measurements
60 mm (Width) x 70 mm (Depth); 515 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Burma
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1337974
Summary
Bibliographic description
Burmese palm leaf book, vermillion and gold edges to closely written leaves. With vermillion cover boards and red textile threaded through. CPW Item number 242. In notebook no.4, page 54 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Seraphim 242. Palm Leaf Book vermillion & gold edges, vermillion boards 20½".'
Provenance
CPW Item 242 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 54